How Do You Get S**T Done? Managing Your Own Productivity
I had a great time last week at the Indiana Conference For Women, and in my sessions, I got to hear a lot of amazing and insightful...
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McKenna Sweazey
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- Oct 28, 2022
- 3 min
How Creative Writing Made Me Better at Giving Virtual Feedback
Your favorite digital empathy author gets a lesson in giving criticism from an unlikely source. I’ve recently started writing a fiction...
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mckennasweazey
- May 23, 2022
- 3 min
Want Better Meetings - Here’s 3 Key Elements for Your Agenda
What’s the best format for a good meeting? One that follows the agenda! Routines can cause people to glaze over, so it’s not a question...
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mckennasweazey
- Apr 12, 2022
- 3 min
Knowledge Distribution is Messy But Critical for Hybrid Work: 4 Ways to Make it Better
What is good knowledge distribution? Is it playbooks so new starters can get up to speed faster at complicated operations? Is it detailed...
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mckennasweazey
- Mar 24, 2022
- 2 min
Using Digital Empathy When Dropping Slacks - A Guide to Being a Good Colleague
Research on how emotions affect negotiation shows that people are less adept at conveying their emotions via email than they think they...
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mckennasweazey
- Feb 8, 2022
- 4 min
Is Your Team Getting What They Want on Trello? 7 Tips For Virtual Collaboration & Negotiation
Where do you get work done with your remote colleagues? For many of us, work now happens within project management boards, tagging...
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mckennasweazey
- Jan 6, 2022
- 3 min
What does a 1970’s perspective on engineers in the office tell us about effective remote work?
Or… how do we apply the Allen Curve to Slack and Zoom? The Allen Curve is a theory created by MIT Professor Thomas J. Allen. In the 70s,...
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mckennasweazey
- Dec 20, 2021
- 4 min
Great Management Requires Teamwork: Keeping Remote Teams Engaged is a Shared Problem
An ebb and flow of engagement is typical for all teams, but fixing it virtually is harder. We naturally feel less connected to and...
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mckennasweazey
- Dec 15, 2021
- 3 min
Empathy For Leaders: 3 Tips to Improve Virtual Communications for Your Team
Modern corporate work involves relationship building, negotiation, camaraderie, and interpersonal challenges- all of which is aided by...
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mckennasweazey
- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
A new kind of office Secret Santa?
We’ve all been there, the office holiday gift exchange. You get someone’s name you barely know, find a gift that’s as inoffensive as...
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mckennasweazey
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
Did you know that emotions make you dumber?
We’ve all been there. You’re calmly sitting at your desk or kitchen counter, working away at a project, when out of left field, an...
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mckennasweazey
- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
What questions do you ask in an interview to understand company culture?
When you’re interviewing remotely, it can be hard to know what the company is LIKE. How do colleagues treat each other? What are the...
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mckennasweazey
- Nov 9, 2021
- 3 min
Which Is the Fake News? People Love Working From Home, or They Hate It?
You might feel like you’re getting whiplash reading the WFH news. Some articles say all employees hate the office and want to stay home...
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mckennasweazey
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
5 Scariest Emails You Can Get on a Friday
We all know that feeling. You’re cruising into the weekend, tying up those last tasks, feeling good about the week. Then BAM. An email...
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mckennasweazey
- Oct 14, 2021
- 2 min
How Automating Some Comms Is Necessary In a Remote Team
As we think about how technology aids knowledge distribution and transparency, I want to give a nod to the role workflow automation plays....
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mckennasweazey
- Sep 27, 2021
- 1 min
The Guy with the Peloton in the Background - and 7 Other Coworkers You See on Zoom
In a virtual-first office, people’s backgrounds are saying as much about them as their shoes do in person. That is to say, A LOT. What...
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mckennasweazey
- Sep 21, 2021
- 2 min
How to (Still) Thrive In Remote Work
The Delta variant has thrown me for a loop, I'll be honest. I was so excited to get back to the office. Since that dream has changed in...
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mckennasweazey
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
How to Manage Remote Workers Across Timezones
The biggest challenge in a distributed, remote team is knowledge transparency Asynchronicity, the fact that people aren't all online at...
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mckennasweazey
- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
Why Remote Management Leads to Micromanagement
Micromanaging is an easy trap for remote managers to fall into while looking for some semblance of control. It's like managing with...
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mckennasweazey
- Aug 3, 2021
- 2 min
Quick Tips to Harness Empathy in Virtual Interviews
Prepare for a structured interview Harness empathetic listening Get your Zoom basics in order 1. Remote interviews tend to be more...
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